Hornberg (Abtsgmünd)
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| height | 497.7 m above sea level NHN | |
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Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 '13 " N , 10 ° 0' 55" E | |
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| rock | Black Jura cover over Keuper slopes | |
The Hornberg is a wooded, isolated mountain not quite 500 meters high in the municipality of Abtsgmünd in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The Hornberg is a continuation of the south-east moving, narrow plateau of the Büchelberger Ridge at a distance of about 2.5 km from this, morphologically separated by the deep cut of the lowest valley of the Blinden Rot , which is about 2 km west of its highest point in the Kocher flows out. The Blinde Rot flows below the slope called Buchhalde on this page at its northern foot from east to west, after it has previously approached in a consistent southern course. About 1.5 km south of its west bend, the cooker itself also moves from east to west. From the Hornberg, which is set back to the east on the so formed western spur between the two rivers, a saddle leads to the northeast over to the plateau beginning at Neuler - Bronnen , over which it rises with a notch height of about 80 meters, to the valleys on both sides it falls over about 120 meters from with up to 20% medium gradient.
The Hornberg has an 8.2 hectare, south-southwest-oriented, 700-meter-long and 200-meter-wide Black Jura high plateau with a pronounced, steeply sloping layer edge, similar to the Büchelberger Grat or the much larger Black Jura areas from Bronnen in the northeast both are about 20 meters higher in their close areas. Its slopes and the two valleys do not dip under the silica sandstone of the Mittelkeuper .
The hamlets of Neuschmiede and Altschmiede of the municipality of Abtsgmünd are still on this side of the Kocher in the southeast and southwest, both less than a kilometer away. The center of the main town is located in the southwest about 1.3 km away, already beyond the Kocher. Except for the lower slope to the saddle in the direction of Neuler-Bronnen, the entire mountain belongs to Abtsgmünd.
The summit plateau of the Hornberg can only be reached on forest trails.
From a natural point of view, the mountain lies on the border between the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains in the west and the foreland of the eastern Swabian Alb in the east, a border that continues east-west with a little distance beyond the Kocher.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Geology roughly based on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
- ↑ Geography according to the background map Topographic map on the State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes ) - all sizes were measured there.
- ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
literature
- Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, single sheet section of sheets No. 7025 Sulzbach-Laufen, 7026 Ellwangen, 7125 Mögglingen, 7126 Aalen.